Soil physics
Study of soil's physical properties and processes
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Prominent soil physicists
- Edgar Buckingham (1867–1940)
- The theory of gas diffusion in soil and vadose zone water flow in soil.
- Willard Gardner (1883–1964)
- First to use porous cups and manometers for capillary potential measurements and accurately predicted the moisture distribution above a water table.
- Lorenzo A. Richards (1904–1993)
- General transport of water in unsaturated soil, measurement of soil water potential using tensiometer.
- John R. Philip (1927–1999)
- Analytical solution to general soil water transport, Environmental Mechanics.
- Martinus Theodorus van Genuchten (1945-)
- Water retention and hydraulic conductivity functions.